Self-introduction:Zhe Wu received his Ph.D in Peking University, 2011, for his research on the role of an RNA-binding protein in regulating plant gene expression and development. He then worked with Dr. Caroline Dean at the John Innes Centre, UK, as a post-doctoral scientist for 5 years. His work during his post-doc focused on the interconnection between the RNA-processing of long non-coding RNAs and chromatic repression at FLC, a key gene underlying developmental timing in plants. His expertise is in co-transcriptional gene regulation in plants and he aims to explore more of the unknown roles of these regulatory mechanisms during developmental phase transitions in plants (e.g. seed germination and flowering). In late 2016, he was appointed assistant professor at SUSTC.